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GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by rntksi »

LunarCamper wrote: post #90
pluc wrote: post #14

You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason

What's a better one? I've been using Google Domains, I don't really have a reason to complain about them, but I've always wondered whether parking everything with a big corporation like that will have its drawbacks one day.

I use hexonet. Can't complain. They do everything right.

The website's homepage is deceiving. The control panel they offer is really for power users. They expose literally everything, and have APIs for most things that you'd want to automate. For people who have to manage multiple domains, it's helpful.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by timbit42 »

shireboy wrote: post #40

I’m a Brave user and tired of Godaddy even if they fix this. What is the best alternative registrar? I just want names, possibly mail forwarding, not hosting etc.

Porkbun has DNS and free email forwarding for 20 addresses. Less expensive than NameCheap.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by dessant »

pluc wrote: post #14

You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason

I still remember how their jerk founder "saved" a village in Zimbabwe from a "problem elephant", and they have basically advertised their business using boobs for years. And that's besides all the scummy actions and questionable security practices of GoDaddy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons#Controversies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by pessimizer »

smitty1e wrote: post #7

When everyone becomes adept at changing their user agent to beat these filters, what so these whiz kids do?

Cloudflare has started kicking people who forge or don't send their referrers. I'm pretty sure they'll ban you (based on customer configuration) if your user-agent doesn't match their fingerprinting/probing.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by bob1029 »

User agent discrimination will never make sense to me. It's such a trivial thing to work around too. Are there legitimate use cases for describing yourself to the web, or could we all just hard-code the bullshit magic string chrome uses and be done with it?

Ad tech is the only reason I believe this garbage continues. Maybe we can hope and pray for some kind of regulatory relief on the horizon. Alternatively, we can start building services the way we know they need to be built, and quit our jobs when our dickhead MBA bosses order us to do inhumane things with the products.

If someone in my organization ordered me to do UA/browser filtering for our web application, I would likely quit out of protest. The primary reason no one asks for ridiculous things like this in my organization is because they are convinced that I actually will. I have made it abundantly clear to the business that certain areas of technology are no-go. Being assertive about this trash fast & early can keep it from becoming a thing in the first place. Clearly, not an option for every career & job, but developers are in such huge demand that they have a non-zero amount of control over this destiny now.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by _notathrowaway »

teddyh wrote: post #100
_notathrowaway wrote: post #53

Speaking of registars, what does HN recommend? I was a happy namecheap user until they decided to go all political against Russian citizens. I am unsure as to what service I should migrate to.

Like I have said previously¹ about choosing a registrar: If you have regular backups, and if some downtime is not really a problem, it might be fine to use web site hosting, e-mail (and in extreme cases even DNS hosting), from some fly-by-night el cheapo provider. But your domain name registrar? Pick them carefully, don’t skimp, and make sure they have good support. Because when things go pear-shaped, you really want…

Does your company have a website? You didn't divulge it in your linked post.

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Post by up6w6 »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #55
_notathrowaway wrote: post #53

Speaking of registars, what does HN recommend? I was a happy namecheap user until they decided to go all political against Russian citizens. I am unsure as to what service I should migrate to.

I like gandi.net but have no idea of their political stance re Russian citizens

https://news.gandi.net/en/2022/03/for-all-the-people-and-one...

> Cutting off Russians and Belarusians would only encourage the creation of different closed worlds and digital networks. We have chosen to hold out our hand to these people. We are not at war with them. Only their leaders, and their madness, need to be stopped. We will of course react quickly against war propaganda of any kind.

Few points that made me choose them (though I would probably take Cloudflare if they supported the TLD of my domains):

https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit

https://www.gandi.net/en/gandi-supports

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by rescbr »

random_savv wrote: post #79
dicknuckle wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't have much issue with the process, it seemed like any other. A local business is a friend of mine, they were paying too much for too little from their previous web host/dev so I transferred the domain name to CF and ran their WordPress "business card" type site through a static site generator, placed all the files in GitHub, and pointed CF Pages at the repo. Whenever they want to make changes, they spin up th…

That sounds interesting. Which static site generator? (Currently happy with the bitnami wordpress image, but wouldn't mind going 100% static!)

Not OP, but I just downloaded one such WordPress business card website with wget and put it into S3/CloudFront.
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